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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1933
Page
3
The Nativity of the Fall Frolic for Central School is set for Friday with a meeting at 1 o clock to finalize plans. Attendees will hear event details including entertainment and sponsorship by the association and local supporters. King's Men gathering follows at Asa Hammond home Friday night for a scripture lesson from Acts chapter five.
In Nelsonville on Friday night the Ladies Aid Society hosts a reception at 7 PM in the First Methodist Church parlors honoring new pastor Rev. H. A. Rothrock and family from Bremen and Rev. and Mrs. Herman Sayre assigned to Circleville. Sayres will attend the event returning for it.
Members met at Miss Blanche Moorehead's home with hosts Mrs. E. J. Arnold and Miss Bessie Deer. Public meeting set for Saturday night on the Public Square with J. A. Coliscott as speaker. Daughters of the American Revolution to meet Saturday at 2 30 with several assisting members. Will Burnelle traveled to Columbus to meet relatives en route to Gebo Wyoming then Nelsonville and the World's Fair visit.
The Queen Esther Society gathered at Jeanette Cramner's Fort Street home for a Wednesday night meeting led by President Mary Catherine Miller. Fourteen members attended as new additions Elsie Matheny Isabelle Easterling Elizabeth Pierce Mary E Goodspeed Betty Lowery and Wanda Lee joined the roll.
All members of Troop 46 meet Friday night at 7 in the K of P Building. Bring handbooks and signal flags. Attendance rules strict. three consecutive absences lead to dismissal. Scout Sam Hawk leads a 16 rider bicycle squadron. eligibility includes three months in scouting and passing Tenderfoot. First Class Scouts may vie for first and second lieutenant roles.
Agnes Bagley 22 wife of Roy Bagley died at the family home on Harper Street Nelsonville. She left two daughters Mary Margaret three years and Joan Melvina two weeks old, her father Irvin Keeney four sisters and one brother. Funeral arrangements pending.
The Presbyterian Church Choir will rehearse at 7 30 tonight in the church school room directed by Prof. C W Janssen.
Prof. Darrell B. Green of Ohio University Engineering Department spoke at the Indiana Academy of Science meeting in Bloomington. He described field strength measurements for radio broadcasting conducted in and around Athens, made with graduate student Russell Kelch.
Standard Bearers of the First Methodist Church met this week at Miss Murriel Higgins’s home with Miss Julia Blackwood leading devotions and Mrs. H. H. Hatch guiding prayer. They planned a Sunshine Box and soup supper for next month and heard a textbook reading by Miss Irene Palmer.
Adjutant Joseph Heard of the Salvation Army in Athens will speak tonight at 7 30 on A Bloody Bag in the citadel. Tomorrow Major C E Bates from Cincinnati and Mrs Bates will lead services in the citadel. Bates will address the Advisory Board at a noon luncheon and Mrs Bates will speak to Home League women in the afternoon.
Heavy frost and dense fog blanketed the Athens District this morning while a frosty 40 degrees was recorded. The previous day reached 62 and last night the mercury hit a record low of 29 for the second time in recent weeks as the sun struggled behind the clouds.
Columbus Ohio October 19 graduates of the Ohio State University College of Medicine will hold a reunion on October 28 the day of Ohio State's home coming football game with Northwestern.
Columbus reports that candidates for Ohio's new State Highway Patrol will undergo an initial formal examination as part of a series of tests before members of the patrol are elected. Nelsonville party returns from southern trip after 2406 miles with cotton and mica displayed at The Citizens Central Bank window.
United Press reports punch by punch results from Montreal bouts. Pete Santos of Norway defeated Bobby Leitham of Montreal, while Joe Ghaouly of St. Louis beat Ed Roger Bernard of Flint. Harold Stewart defeated Albert Ladon in New York city, and Frankie Martin stopped Richard Carter in Montreal. Tommy Rollins defeated Frankie Fiore in Montreal.
The work of releasing frozen deposits in banks closed in the fourth Federal Reserve District began today with Sidney B. Congdon named to direct the effort. He is president of the National City Bank of Cleveland.
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